There are many posts out there. You can try them. I could not achieve
any success though.
If you want those links then let me know. i just forgot those links
atm...
On Aug 21, 7:47 pm, crajesh crajesh2...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I am new in android. I want to know to connect the mysql
I think it is rather presumptuous of some commentators to suggest one
approach is either right or wrong. The real world is never this black
or white.
A direct connection to a remote database is perfectly secure, usable
and technically possible particularly if the Android device is
connecting via
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Tim t...@mobiforms.com wrote:
A direct connection to a remote database is perfectly secure, usable
and technically possible particularly if the Android device is
connecting via a secure wi-fi network or a GPRS/3G network where the
SIM is part of a private APN.
One more thing to consider: network latency.
Requesting data over HTTP requires one round-trip for data, in addition
to TCP session setup. The latter can be all but eliminated by using HTTP
connection keep-alive.
DB protocols can be more chatty, requiring more network round-trips to
get
In other words, eat cake.
On Aug 21, 6:26 pm, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote:
Re: This is a limitation/shortcoming/feature of Android.
No, it's not. It's a characteristic of SQL database connections, vs
the characteristics of distributed clients.
This is not new with Android -- well-written
Sometimes it is black and white. And sometimes, just a very dark gray
against a very bright background.
On the surface, at least, your Sync Server would appear to be a far
superior approach.
On Aug 22, 2:32 am, Tim t...@mobiforms.com wrote:
I think it is rather presumptuous of some commentators
Any decent developer should know this.
That's unfair. The OP did state that he was new to Android, and on
other platforms you CAN connect directly to a remote database. This
is a limitation/shortcoming/feature of Android.
On Aug 21, 1:24 pm, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't
Any client type software that connects directly to a database is badly written.
Insert a sniffer in there and go crazy on the database.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:53 AM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote:
Any decent developer should know this.
That's unfair. The OP did state that he was new to
Re: This is a limitation/shortcoming/feature of Android.
No, it's not. It's a characteristic of SQL database connections, vs
the characteristics of distributed clients.
This is not new with Android -- well-written desktop applications use
a service layer rather than direct connection to the SQL
Well, Symbian allows connection to remote DBs.
On Aug 21, 6:26 pm, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote:
Re: This is a limitation/shortcoming/feature of Android.
No, it's not. It's a characteristic of SQL database connections, vs
the characteristics of distributed clients.
This is not new with
Android doesn't forbid it -- but since it's a bad idea, period, nobody
who knows what they're doing is interested in making it easy.
So nobody is going to figure out why, for example, the MySQL JConnect
driver doesn't just work out-of-the-box. I suspect I would be able to
get it working, but I'm
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